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I think you're right. Good formatting aids the reading experience. Accents and italics and such have also been put like that by the author for a reason - if you are dismissing them, you're losing part of the author's work. Imagine Cormac McCarthy with ordinary punctuation for instance*. In older PG texts, italics (or otherwise emphasised words) are written as CAPS - that's equally annoying while reading.
*okay, not the ideal example, since he simplifies it - but changing his specific punctuation for any reason would be plain wrong
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